Pretending Quotes

811 Pretending quotes by 582 unique authors

It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and… — Eleanor Catton
I'm the one not caring. I'm the one pretending the Earth isn't shattering all around me because I don't want it to be. I don't… — Susan Beth Pfeffer
I think it was the one thing I didn’t like about him or about guys in general: when a girl says she doesn’t want to… — J.A. Redmerski
Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing. — Sara Gruen
Stop it," he hissed in her ear. "You'll just make it worse for yourself. It's better if you don't look." "Like you do?" she hissed… — Cassandra Clare
To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space. — William Joyce
Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think. — Sue Grafton
Mr. Branwell and Mr. Carstairs seem to have no problem cleaning their boots,” Sophie said, looking darkly from Will to Tessa. “Perhaps you could learn… — Cassandra Clare
Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other… — Akira Kurosawa
The difficult thing, the glorious thing, was to be who you really were, even if that person was cruel or dangerous, particularly if cruel and… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended… — Lauren Oliver
No one has it all figured out, especially not the people who are acting like they do and judging you because of it. Pretending to… — Tucker Max
There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know. — Robert Henri
I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking… — Shirley Jackson
The moment the light went out, everyone stopped pretending. — Isaac Marion
When he admitted this to me, I found myself almost annoyed. It was as if he'd hidden this part of himself in order to deceive… — Daniel Keyes
Why had I wasted all my time pretending to be someone I wasn't? I was tired, so very, very tired of standing on my own… — Ilona Andrews
You were everything, everything that I wanted. We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it. And all of the memories, so… — Avril Lavigne
And this is the truth. Because I may be only eighteen, but it already seems pretty obvious that the world is divided into two groups:… — Gayle Forman
The world is full of actors pretending to be human — J D Salinger
It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the… — John Boyne
I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had… — Sylvia Plath
They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one… — Lauren Oliver
This is myself, baby. All of my selves. I own each and every one of them. I know who I'm pretending to be and who… — Gayle Forman
I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me, excite my blood. Being always on one’s guard, catching every glance, the significance… — Mikhail Lermontov

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